Avenyn (Kungsportsavenyn) and Götaplatsen

- Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Göteborgs Konsthall, Göteborgs Stadsbibliotek, Stora Teatern, Hard Rock Café, Elite Park Avenue Hotel

Kungsportsavenyn (Kings Gate’s Avenue), or just Avenyn (the Avenue), is the most prestigous road in Gothenburg, where you find some of the most important restaurants and stores. Elite Park Avenue Hotel, a 12-storey modernist hotel from 1950, and Hard Rock Café is situated here, as well as many classic cafés. Avenyn is 840m long and leads to Götaplatsen, where you find a large staty of Poseidon inside a fountain (7m high, designed buy Carl Milles), Stadsteatern (Municipal Theatre), Göteborgs Konstmuseum, the large art museum from 1923 with works of among others Picasso, Rubens, Zorn and Dubuffet and Göteborgs Konsthall (Gothenburg Art Hall), all large yellow-brick buildings. The Art Museum includes the Hasselblad Center exhition hall about the famous Swedish camera that was used on the moon. While the avenue itself is considered beautiful, there are just a few historic buildings, many buildings are yellow brick and modernist style. One of them is the recently refurbished Göteborgs Stadsbibliotek (the Municipal Library), built in 1967. Stora Teatern is a grand theater building at the other end of Avenyn, next to the canal.